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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

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Our solution came about in the form of hybrid courses for students—a mix of asynchronous curriculum and regular, scheduled synchronous sessions. The Utility of Hybrid Courses. For those of you struggling to integrate fully online courses—or fully in-person courses—into your school models, consider this.

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Is Higher Ed Really Ready to Embrace Hybrid Learning?

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For example, colleges tend to maintain control of systems that are highly regulated (like financial aid) or highly academic (like recruiting faculty), according to Garrett, and they’re likely to outsource operations that require technology they don’t have (like exam proctoring) or that benefit from an outside perspective (like market research).

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. It’s often said that online courses offer students increased flexibility—supposedly a positive quality. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding.

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Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?

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In contrast—and as was found in many studies—students were equally likely to complete a hybrid course, one that delivers both face-to-face and digital components—as to complete a face-to-face course. The report also showed that in other outcomes, too, online students were not as strong as their residential peers.

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

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exam scores increased post adjustments). Online and in-person delivery of upper division lecture courses in undergraduate life sciences degree programs leads to equivalent post-graduate degree outcomes. Hybrid courses with flexible participation: the HyFlex course design. For example, Ardissone et al.

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

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exam scores increased post adjustments). Online and in-person delivery of upper division lecture courses in undergraduate life sciences degree programs leads to equivalent post-graduate degree outcomes. Hybrid courses with flexible participation: the HyFlex course design. For example, Ardissone et al.